During the last federal election campaign, at a big-city mayors’ conference, Mayor Larry Campbell of the communist party-founded COPE party in Vancouver (an NDP-supported civic party—the party of Libby Davies and Svend Robinson for example—and in fact often described as the civic wing of the NDP), approached the media microphones for comments about the federal party leaders vying for office.
He called Conservatives (or conservatives, I’m not sure) “barbarians”. Again: barbarians”. That’s me and my wife. Barbarians. My wife is a tiny 110-pound barbarian. I heard it quite by accident over the public broadcast airwaves—I didn’t read it in a personal blog, in case that makes any difference.
The media reported it, then as we know went onto bigger stories like how Stephen Harper’s candidates are all in favor of slavery, female servitude, forcing people to attend church wearing bow ties, killing all homosexuals (or something), and of course the worst of all, defending Canada and Canadian families. I’m not sure though since I mostly tuned out after finding out I was a barbarian, thanks to our neo-communist mayor and the media who reported it then never, ever, not even once, called him on it.
Now Conservative MP Monte Solberg—one of the very brightest lights in the parliament in many years—makes a passing reference in his personal blog to how our Liberal Prime Minister Paul (“we lead the world”) Martin seems to like to compare himself with Martin Luther King. It was actually a brilliant reference. Absolutely right on target. Wish I’d thought of it myself.
But folks here’s the rules: When a conservative says something like that, it makes huge headlines and the speaker is slammed until he dies. Liberal MP’s stand up to microphones and wax indignant about the horrors of allowing conservatives into this country. The media poodles write big long lectures to us dumb plebeian Canadians, and we all dutifully vote for the more “tolerant” liberals, who merely (and quite rightly, if I have this correct) call us conservatives: “Nazis”, and liken us to “Hitler” and “haters” and “homophobes” and “Extreme Right Wing Christian Zealots” and “morons” and “idiots” and then stomp on look-alike dolls of fellow conservatives, then jam pencils into the doll’s right eye on state-run TV….
Here’s Monte Solberg’s blog entry (followed by his latest two follow ups) which the Montreal Gazette’s Elizabeth Thompson chose to completely misrepresent by allowing Liberal MP Marlene Jennings to (coincidentally, given the story) twist Solberg’s words with a very typically liberal lying diatribe of deceit, into one that please her and her cheap liberal politics; then go so far as to interview a civil rights victim-group leader who does the same. And here’s a heads-up, media and liberal MPs: Monte Solberg placed an apostrophe before the ‘s’ in gorillas inappropriately in the first paragraph. He’s obviously a complete moron—am I right?!:
March 6, 2005
Paul Martin Luther King
Last night Paul Martin pointedly did not talk about the several 600 pound gorilla’s in the middle of the room.Never mind that Canada/US relations may have reached their lowest point since we burned down the White House. That’s not important. The real issue is that Mr Paul Martin Luther King is going to defend the Charter from those barbarians who would strip away the “right” to same sex marriage and return us to those backward times of, say, last Tuesday when only opposite sex couples could marry. Those were the days when knuckle draggers like Paul Mart….oh never mind. That’s in the past now. He didn’t understand about the fundamental human right thing. He was ignorant. Actually he was where a third of his own caucus is today. I guess they hadn’t heard that Paul Martin Luther King has now decided that same sex marriage is a fundamental human right that is protected by the Charter. It was all along. We just didn’t know about it until PMLK proclaimed it from the mountain top. Let freedom ring.
Cattle producers should have sent Paul a letter telling him that they just discovered that an open border is a “fundamental human right” that is protected by the Charter. Then Paul Martin Luther King would have had no choice but to at least mention it in his speech and maybe even confront those American cattle segregationists who won’t let Canadian cattle drink from the same watering hole as American cattle.
Oh yes and Mr. PMLK forgot to mention that sponsorship thing. But I am telling him right this second that spending money the way the Libs did on sponsorship actually violates my fundamental human rights and those rights are protected by the Charter.
Ah ha. Paul you are so busted. Now that I’ve asserted my Charter right you have to go to bat for me. It’s the Charter stupid. I say it’s a Charter right therefore it is. You argue with me and you’re arguing with the Charter and if you argue with the Charter you are not a real Canadian. In fact you’re probably an ugly American.
So Mr. PMLK where is your “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” on sponsorship? Remember it’s all in the Charter and if you don’t think so, then you can just take your hairy knuckles back to Selma Alabama where you obviously came from.
posted by Monte at 11:03 PM
March 7, 2005
PMO Cry Babies
I just got a call from a journalist who said that he’d received a call from the PMO complaining about my mocking of Paul Martin as “Paul Martin Luther King”. Not only do they have thin skins they are outrageous hypocrits. It was Martin that accused the Conservative Party of wanting to conceal our agenda. Yes the same Paul Martin who was telling the Americans that he wanted to mate with them on missile defence, only to turn them down at the last moment and then deny everything. Yeesh, you gotta admit they have a lot of gall.I suggested at the end of the Paul Martin Luther King post that if Martin didn’t champion my fundamental human right to not have my tax dollars abused in sponsorship then he really wasn’t Paul Martin Luther King. I argued he was just a segregationist knuckle dragger from Selma Alabama. But the Libs are spinning it that I was suggesting that Martin Luther King was a knuckle dragger. Oh brother, these guys really are the sucky babies we thought they were.
posted by Monte at 3:56 PM
March 8, 2005
Nasty, Nasty
You gotta hand it to them. Those guys in the PMO play hard ball. Now at the risk of perpetuating this little battle I have to respond to my detractors.Hey I know that satire can be dangerous because not everyone will get it, but if you have to spell out what you are doing then it just becomes wizened up dry criticism. That is just way too boring.
Then there are those joyless people who spend their lives looking for reasons to be outraged. These are the people who are offended by everything. What an awful way to pass your days. I really do feel sorry for them.
Finally there are those who feign outrage. This is the camp that my friends Scott Reid and Marlene Jenning fall into. They are real pro’s at the outrage game. They actually get the joke but pretend that they don’t. They are outraged for the cameras and then they go back to their desk, eat a muffin and read the paper.
Consider for a moment Marlene’s statement that she was “speechless” at my mocking of Martin Luther King. As she knows I was mocking Paul Martin and how he is trying to cloak himself in the language of the Civil Rights Movement. Secondly she is not believable when she says she was “speechless”. Words don’t fail Marlene, even for five seconds. Oh well, that’s politics.
posted by Monte at 6:50 AM
The Montreal Gazette story reports the Liberal MPs outrage!:
Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine Liberal MP Marlene Jennings said she was left speechless after reading it.
“It’s actually quite despicable on his part because he trivializes the civil rights movement. He trivializes Martin Luther King Jr.‘s contribution to the whole notion of tolerance, of peaceful resistance, of peaceful civil disobedience and, literally, the pain and the suffering that many blacks and whites underwent in order to remove segregationist legislation.”
The Montreal Gazette story reports the civil rights leader’s outrage!:
Fo Niemi, director of the Centre for Research Action on Race Relations, said it was “highly objectionable” and called for Solberg to apologize, not only to the black community but to the King family.
“Not only is this the most shameful sort of use of Dr. King’s name for a political end but it further perpetuates (the perception) that there is a fundamental problem with some members of Parliament from that party in dealing with issues of importance to minorities in Canada.”
The Montreal Gazette story reports the Liberal Prime Minister Paul (“we lead the world”) Martin’s outrage!:
The Prime Minister’s Office was also quick to condemn Solberg’s comments.
“Mr. Solberg’s blog drips with Conservative Party disrespect and disdain for the charter, the Supreme Court, basic human rights and, astonishingly, the legacy of Martin Luther King,” spokesperson Scott Reid said.
The Montreal Gazette story reports that this all comes on the heels of the 40th anniversary of a civil rights march in Alabama!:
Solberg’s posting Sunday came only a day before the 40th anniversary of a deadly civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, in which police used so much brutality to break up the march it sparked a national outcry.
And then the Montreal Gazette story reports, finally, from the horse’s mouth with this extensive interview of the barbarian himself, Monte Solberg:
In an interview yesterday, Solberg said those who object to his posting have misunderstood it. He said Martin is the one who is mocking King and the civil rights movement.
“I’m arguing that he is trivializing it.”
No, that’s it.
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